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Same Problem

I'm having the exact same problem. Anytime I type in a URL such as www.gurrydesign.com it changes it to { HYPERLINK "www.gurrydesign.com" }. It also does this to old Word documents that I created before the problem started.

What's weird is when I right-click the link and click Select Hyperlink, it selects it and makes it an actual hyperlink like so: www.gurrydesign.com. This means it can't be a formatting/style problem. I've tried using the format painter to copy the correct link and pasting it to the wacky one. No luck.

The other thing that's weird is when I select a messed up link like { HYPERLINK "www.gurrydesign.com" } and then paste it in the same document, it gets pasted as www.gurrydesign.com. I'm thinking it might have something to do with the registry? But I haven't been able to find anything online about this either. Hopefully someone can help us out.

I did end up fixing this problem although it isn't going to do you a whole lot of good because I can't remember what it is.

I do know that it is a key combination, and a simple one at that. I believe it involved one of the function keys. Basically you entered a mode by accidentally hitting a key combination ( or one key? ) and you get out of it by hitting the same key combination.

Sorry I can't remember what it was ( I should have written it down ), but hopefully this gets you in the right direction

This was a lifesaver

Wow. That was driving me nuts and repeated searches about "hyperlinks in Word" and related topics in all the usual places came up empty. In the end www.google.com/microsoft got me to this thread and the answer.

Failure to address this in MS Word help is yet another reason to hate Microsoft.

Hey there! I just registered here to say:
God (if you believe in it/he/she) bless you.
I was having the same problem and I couldn't figure it out why this was happening to me. I even reinstalled Office but the issue persisted until now.